The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-05-28
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.

1t will require $4,000 900 to pay the pensions
due the present month.
Mrs. Cleveland's only ornament for her hands
is the ring with which she was married.
Speaker Carlisle ia the latest nominee of the
correspondents for the seat of the late Justice
Woods.
Mr.. Hyatt, the new Treasurer of the United
States, having bonded in the sum of $3.50, 900, has
entered upon the discharge of his duties.
Secretary Fairchild has issued call for the re-
naming three per cent. bonds, amounting to $19,
zoe, 900, making them payable July LIST.
A wealthy lady in Washington, who common
ced specializing in suburban real estate about three
months ago, has already cleared 100000.
The prizes awarded at the National drill
amounted to $26, 500 and ranged from $50 to $500
Second Assistant Postmaster General Knott
is said to be candidate for Governor of Mary
land, and it is intimated that he is quietly nurs'
ing his little boom.
Thursday, June I'd, is the first anniversary
IS .h,u-1=dnx Va ara;sae .f,hr1uudeKs, where
they have gone fishing.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is growing wealthy
by the advance in real estate values, having but
recently been offered $780, 900 for her Edgewood
estate near Washin gton.
President Cleveland left on Thursday for
Saranac Lake, New York, to enjoy few days
fishing. He was accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland
and her mother and Colonel and Mrs. Lamont.
1t is expected that the receipts of the Gov
eminent for the current fiscal year will aggregate
1870, 100000, or greater by $14, 900 than con-
templated when the official estimates were pre-
pared.
Attorney General Garland settles the ques-
ton about his being an applicant for the va
cant judgeship on the Supreme Bench. He says
81 do not want the place and would not take it if
offered me-"
The Catholic University to be built Just out.
side the city of Washington will cost, fully equip
ped, about $5,OOO,OOO. Of this sum s75O,OO6 has
already been subscribed, one lady miss Caldwell
having given 100000.
"A dozen or more Senators who have remained
in Washington since the adjournment of Congress
are now preparing to leave for the summer. 1t
is said of Senator Everts, who has summer home
in Vermont, that it costs one dollar piece for
every potato he raises on his farm.
"A few days ago the President received the
resignation Of the postmaster at Shenandoah, Pa,
and strange to say no one has applied for the
place, the salary Of which 81 roo. This is said to
be the first instance Of the kind that has occurred
under the present administration.
The transfer of the contents of the treasury
from Mr.. Jordan to Mr.. Hyatt involves the actual
count of all the money in the treasury, including
in paper money in the reserve vaults,
sos, 100000 in the cash vault, $60,000,000 in
standard silver dollars, S25, 100000 in gold coin
and a smaller quantity Of fractional silver. The
count can hardly be finished inside of two months.
Application was made to the President few
days ago for the pardon of manin st. Louis who
had been convicted of fraudulent registration.-
Upon the back of the application he made the
following endorsement: "Denied. cannot pardon
a crime against the election laws, except it be in
a case presenting unusually strong considerations
for cemency. I consider such offences the worst
of all crimes, and know of none the punishment
of which is more important to the public"
In recent talk with Texas Congressman
on the prohibition subject the President is repre-
sented as saying that the subject of remedy for
intemperance was a very serious and difficult
problem to solve; that conflicting views were en-
tertained by men who interested themselves in the
subject, and who were equally honest and con-
scientious. There is no doubt, he said, that the
man who uses liquor to excess is not equal to the
temperate man in the performance of his duties,
and he had observed this when he had men work.
ing for him.